The Clifton clarion., 1887-03-23

(S75W dollars per acre! The great est cavlller will not have the ef- frontcry to claim one half of this for cost of culture and disposition of the crop. We will give expense account credit for one third and credit profit with the remain ing $500.
 Leonard Coats, a leading nurs- eryman and fruit grower in NHpa, Cal, says: 1t must be q good many years before there will be peaches enough raised in Napa for even one local cannery. 1 have just learned of contract between a cannery and a large fruit grower near Vacavillp, by which the lat ter's peaches are all bought for five years at 2 cents per pound. An item life this shows how great faith there Is concerning the fu- ture of the peach" Such testi- mony more than corroborates the statement I have heretofore made. He further says: I've need n Napa some large orchards of Eos ter, Early Crawford, Susquehan na. Sellers Cling, MeKevett cling, and most of all, Muir. Here is a val
 uable hint for intending planters
 If they need in Napa some large orchards of peaches where they al
 ready have 54,966 trees. growing
 what are our are wants in Marico
 pa county; With all this valuable
 testimony before them there arc
 too many people who have fear;
 that the business here will bt
 overdono. Let us see what th'
 constant "overdoing" of the busi
 ness has done for California. No
 twenty years ago Los Angele:
 county was known far and near a:
 one of the ''cow counties" where
 you could count cattle upon
 thousand hills. It was believed
 to be good for little if anything else
 \ few sanguine pioneens believed otherwise and commenced to plan
 of the orange, grape, peach, prun' apricot, nectarine, apples ant pears. At first 1t was discour aging business, but their faith up
 held them until the tide turned Il
 their favor and a grand metamoI
 phosis commenced which ha I transformed the great ranges int
 smiling vineyards and bloomln
 orchards, which have enriched tn
 country aS never did and neSe
 could her hocks and herds ha
 they held possession until dooms
 day. Lands that ten years age
 yes, ives years since, were Col
 sidered almost worthless have bee
 proven, that, with water added, ! have a value of one hundred do lars per acre unimproved. 4 hl condition of affairs prevails many other counties in the state
 In what respect are we of tn valley behind the most favore spot on the American continen . In climate, Arizona IS not excelle , The very heat that there is l muco talk about IS conducive , the perfect growth and maturi : of the choice varieties of grap } and standard fruits. In soil al 1. water for irrigation, no seml-irop !. country that l kuow of cOlnpar 9 with this. In time of ripening, | is from two weeks to one mon $ ahead of California. This ol t item gives us superlative adva | tage. for our fruits will enter | e markets when they are bare al 3 the people are looking for som ! thing fresh. Then, lastly We a n thirty-six houra nearer the caste n markets than Los Angeles, t Q most favored locality of Californ g .n that respect, which is anoth r great thing in our favor. Wi 8 the completion of the Marco 1T and Phenix railway we will n practically on the main thoroug Il fare between the Atlantic and 1 u ciic sea boards. With all the e things favorins us, Mir, Preside Il and gentlemen, I ask what Is the s- to prevent fruit growing with pi 5 it in Maricopa county.
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